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Formation of the Phrygian state: the Early Iron Age at Gordion*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Mary M. Voigt  and
Robert C. Henrickson
Mary M. Voigt
Affiliation:
The College of William and Mary, Virginia
Robert C. Henrickson
Affiliation:
The Smithsonian Institution
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A brief history of archaeological research at Gordion Piecing together documentary sources from areas to the east and west of Anatolia, historians agree that in the eighth century BC, central Anatolia was dominated by people who spoke an Indo-European language, Phrygian (Mellink 1991: 621; Muscarella 1995: 92 with refs). From historical sources we also know the location of the Phrygians' capital, Gordion: Quintus Curtius (Hist Alex III.1–2) states that the city lay on the Sangarios River ‘equally distant from the Pontic and Cilician Seas’. Using this description, Gustav and Augustus Körte travelled across Turkey more than a century ago looking for the physical remains of Gordion and Phrygia. They eventually focused on a mound lying adjacent to the Sangarios or modern Sakarya. The mound, now called Yassıhöyük, is large relative to others in the region, and lies in the proper geographical setting for ancient Gordion; a series of artificial mounds or tumuli scattered across nearby slopes provides additional evidence of the settlement's importance.

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Anatolian Studies , Volume 50 , December 2000 , pp. 37 - 54
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 2000

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